To Heinrich Georg Bronn 4 February [1860]
Summary
Discusses possible translation of Origin into German. Could HGB advise E. Schweizerbart [Stuttgart publisher] about good translator. Suggests Bronn edit the translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | State Library of South Australia (Archival collections D 4639(L)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2687 |
To H. G. Bronn 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB for agreeing to superintend translation of Origin.
Comments on HGB’s review.
Encloses corrections and preface for Schweizerbart. Discusses translation of term "natural selection".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library DC AL 1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2698 |
To H. G. Bronn [c. 25 February 1860]
Summary
Discusses meaning of various English scientific terms.
Is much pleased that translation [of Origin, 1st German ed.] will be ready by May.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.340) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2699 |
To H. G. Bronn 21 March [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732 |
To H. G. Bronn 10 April [1860]
Summary
Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.
Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2755 |
To H. G. Bronn 13 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB for sending copies of his Untersuchungen [1858] and Morphologische Studien [1858] and for a portrait.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.207) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2757 |
To H. G. Bronn 14 July [1860]
Summary
Responds to HGB’s critique of Origin [appended to German translation of Origin]. Comments on English reviews.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 14 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2867 |
To H. G. Bronn 5 October [1860]
Summary
Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.
Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.
CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.
Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.
Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.
Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2940 |
From H. G. Bronn 13 [or 15] October 1860
Summary
Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?
Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.
Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.
| Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 317 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2934 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
